The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-24

SIX MONTHS. ..........."........ 75o.
The Pickens Sentinel says Mr..
Ellie Kennemore has hog that weighs
$50 pounds. He oughtto have sent him
to the State fair for premium.
Ex-senator James r. Doolittle of
New York has proposed a strange scheme.
His idea is that married men should
have two votes, while the bachelors
should have only one.
Evangelist Moody has decided to
start for India early in 1888, but before
he goes he will make an effort to convert
louisville, Ky. A tabernacle that will
seat 5000 persons is now being built for
the revival meetings.
- In the primary schools Of Stockton,
CAL, the boys in the lower classes are
obliged to- learn needlework just the same
althe little girls, so that hereafter they
can make small repairs for themselves.
w. N. Taft, exp Postmaster of Charl:
1 eston and leading Republican, has
become demented. He came to Charles
ton with Rhode Island regiment just
after the war, and has lived there ever
since. He is the last carpet. bagger of
prominence in South Carolina, and his
illness means the end of Republicanism
il this State.
AT Newberry Wednesday, after two
days trial, Col. George Johnstone was
acquitted of the murder of JOHN B. Jones.
The jury was out only four minutes.
Both parties we're prominent lawyers, and
the shooting occurred during trial in
ths5 Justice court. The case has attracted
much attention, and the verdict has the
popular approval.
The Rev Charles A. Berry, of VOL
yerhampton, England, has been elected
pastor of Plymouth Church as Henry
Ward Beecher's successor. He will
probably receive salary of $4,000 a
year. Mr.. Berry is said to be about as
loose in his theological notions as was
Mr. Beecher. Its to be hoped that he
will steer clear of entangling alliances.
second marriage recorded in
Augusta, Ca, of white woman marry.
ing celestial, occurred last week. John
Loo Chong, who keeps general grocery
store, and Miss Alice Quattlebaum, an
operative Of the Riverside mills, we're
the, contracting parties. The ceremony
was performed at the residence of the
brides mother, Marbury street, by Jus.
tice ]. b. Neib.ing.
President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity, who has just returned from trip
through Europe, says that English is rapid.
u spreading over the Continent as the
universal language. He travelled
through spain, Northern Africa, Greece
and Austria, as well as through more
commonly visited countries, and found
he could travel Comfortably through
all those countries with no language
but English"
The first train of cars, with engine
attached, reached the new depot in Wal
halla on Monday afternoon about 5
O'Clock. 1t was the material train.
Quite large crowd watched its approach
as it crossed the trestle over Brewery
street and pulled up 10 the stopping place.
1t is thought that the passenger and
freight trains will be run through this
week some time. Walhalla is at last
connected with the outer world both by
rail and telegraph.
Hong Yew Chang, the young Chi,
nese graduate of the Columbia Law
school, @ho had special act, passed by
the New York Legislature to enable him
to be admitted to the bar, has not found
his path to legal eminence an easy one,
In fact he was knocked out in the first
round by the Supreme Court Judges,
who hold that no Chinaman can be made
9 citizen, and therefore he could not be
admitted to the bar.
- One of the peculiar features of the
Territory of Idaho is the occurrence of
dark rocky chasms, into which large
streams and creeks disappear and are
never more seen. These assures are old
lava channels. At one place along the
~baghef the snak ke River one of these
streams reappears, gushing from cleft
high up in the -basaltic walls, whence it
leaps into the torrent below. Where
this stream has its origin is..a mystery,
through tits believed to be long way
in the North.
= Senator Butler, of South Carolina, it
is said, will introduce bill in the senate
this winter, matured with the practical
experience he acquired as regimental
brigade and division commander in the
army of Northern Virginia, looking to
yearly ten days. or two weeks encamp.
ment of the militia of the States in turn
at Washington, if the grounds can be
had, to be commanded by some general
officer of the army, the camp to be as
large as would best further the PURPOSES
for which it was instituted.
"A petition to the legislature is
being generally signed by citizens in
Columbia asking legislation allowing the
use of two hundred convicts two years
for the completion of the Columbia canal,
the labor to be turned over to FIVE trus-
tees representing the city, who are to
raise funds for the work by canal bonds,
the interest on which the city shall guar
antee, on condition that the canal is fin.
ished by the city's representatives in two
years, and thereafter shall be municipal
property. Provision is also made TO
furnish the penitentiary with water power